* Talk of depression fades * Latest indicators breed optimism for small business * Some areas, like Houston, face more pain PHOENIX, May 8 - As customers timidly return with slightly open wallets, small businesses...
-- Christopher Swann is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own -- NEW YORK, June 12 - The Federal Reserve is putting on a brave face about the rise in Treasury yields. At...
TOKYO, Nov 11 - Japanese office worker Satoshi Tada pays for shopping, wins free food and gets store discounts all by waving his cellphone. "I use it pretty much every day," the 25-year-old said. "You...
China detailed its revitalization plan for light industry and, in the meantime, hiked subsidies for auto and home appliance replacement to further tap into consumers' wallets. China's fiscal revenue continued to drop, recording a year-on-year 13.6-percent plunge in April.
Sun Tiantian, a Beijing office worker, fell in love with Louis Vuitton's newly-released Monogram canvas wallet. She decided to get it for herself as a New Year gift and got ready to fork over a month's worth of her salary, about 5,000 yuan ($731), to Louis Vuitton's flagship Beijing store.
AMSTERDAM, Feb 24 - Panasonic Corp is making a major push to sell its home appliances in Europe, it said on Tuesday, betting that energy-efficient washing machines and refrigerators can pry open consumers' wallets. Panasonic,...
GENERAL Motors Corp reported its sales in China rose 6 percent in 2008 from a year earlier, the slowest pace in five years as consumers tightened their wallets amid the financial crisis.
The last few months of the year are usually known as the giving season. But as the markets tank this year, Americans are doing something they rarely do: keeping their wallets closed. One senior executive...
The last few months of the year are usually known as the giving season. But as the markets tank this year, Americans are doing something they rarely do: keeping their wallets closed. One senior executive...
NEW YORK --While voters in Tuesday's presidential election opted for change, the nation's fiscal and economic ailments didn't appear to stop them from opening their wallets to take on additional debt and rejecting key tax-reduction...